Beyond everything else we need to be extremely alarmed by the actions of this administration. Everyone who underestimates Mr. Trump due to his age and seemingly lack of knowledge of the constitution is now at a disadvantage. He’s been using our own constitution to undermine the nation. He’s been using the system and the courts for decades and all for his own benefit. He would have been impeached and still should be for everything that he has been doing for his benefit that is extremely outside the legal limits of his office.
I suggest those law firms who bent the knee just decide to organize and come together to send a fuck you message to Trump. He reneges on his deals all the time; why not these firms? They never got that a bully thug will always come back for more. Better to downsize with honor than ass kiss into hell.
How alarmed should we be that Mr. Sykes has gone off the deep end for a deported illegal alien MS13 gang member who had been detained as implicated in a murder investigation? Or that he has given credence to a demonstrably false assertion that the administration is in open defiance of a SCOTUS ruling that this MS13 gang member must be “repatriated“ to the US? SCOTUS ordered no such thing. Not even close.
Here’s the key language from the opinion: “the order properly requires the government to ‘facilitate’ Garcia’s RELEASE FROM CUSTODY IN EL SALVADOR.” It says nothing about returning him to the US. Indeed it implies that it would be fine if El Salvador deported him to Timbuktu.
SCOTUS made clear that the lower court order should not presume to interfere with the President’s Art. II power over foreign relations and gave a very strong ‘hint’ that its prior order to “effectuate” even Garcia’s release “may exceed the District Court’s authority.” That is clearly recognized as a smack upside the head to the district court judge.
Indeed, SCOTUS drove home the point directing the trial judge in two added ways: (1) to “clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs” and (2) the government merely “should be prepared to share WHAT IT CAN concerning” steps taken and “the prospect of further steps.” Thats it.
In legal parlance, that means the district court judge should drop the presence of her “inferior court” ego and listen carefully to and, pretty much, accept whatever it is the administration deigns to provide. The administration, not the jumped up DC judge, is driving this particular legal bus.
Read the legal tea leaves. SCOTUS is not going to allow a real constitutional crisis to devolve from some an illegal alien already determined by an immigration trial and administrative appellate court to be MS13 and subject to deportation, just not to El Salvador. If there’s gonna be a constitutional crisis with any of these “inferior court” TROs, it will be over bigger fish to fry than Mr. MS13 “Maryland father” Garcia. Fighting this particular legal fact pattern is an absolute loser for the Left.
When all is said and done, the legal moral of this story is: don’t be an illegal alien with gang ties in the US. Leave now.
I'm a former newspaper reporter (8 years covering government and politics) Challenging for the editors reading the stories to write headlines BUT your point is well made. Keep the dog photos coming and what is that Eli is wearing in your car, a doggie seat belt?
Thank you for pointing this out. I get outraged by many of these headlines that the editors create, thinking they're providing some sort of balanced coverage.
This is another illustration of the jumble of thoughts disconnected from reality that make up Trump's thinking. He takes nothing seriously, places no value on experience, expertise, knowledge. A drunken weekend tv host runs the DoD, a conspiracy-minded anti-vaxx crank over HHS, cosplaying ICE Barbie over DHS, cult & dictator-loving extremist as DNI, crazy-eyed swag merchant and his podcaster sidekick running the FBI, faux Christian, faux lawyer AG, NY real estate pal in charge of world peace, etc., etc. Now, extorted, top-tier attorneys are perfect for negotiating trade deals and rebuilding the coal industry. If this isn't crazy, then crazy doesn't exist. Is there any way that this can't blow up, with disastrous consequences?
You've done it again, Charlie, and in the process really upped your game. When history records this epoch of agony and progress, may you be numbered among our heroes. You'll look so good in the cover pic on your bio, flanked by your remarkably regal (in the best sense of the word) boyz.
Thank you Charlie, for parsing the "but". There's a lot of stuff that makes me uneasy or even alarmed and (but) i can't quite articulate in simple terms why it's unsettling or alarming. I'm quite sure this is by design because MAGA is a bunch of world class semantic gymnasts. They learned English from George Orwell.
Garcia is an illegal alien. Period. Harvard needs to be monitored. You go to college for an education..no other reason. And if the government gives them money then they should have to answer to the government.
That was before his wife applied for 2 domestic violence restraining orders against him. More to this story than we know. But we see how it's working out.
Your “exit take” captures my mood perfectly. As I continue to digest reality, I wonder how so many people can continue to exist in a state of nonsense or denial.
Appears like someone has spammed the comments?
Beyond everything else we need to be extremely alarmed by the actions of this administration. Everyone who underestimates Mr. Trump due to his age and seemingly lack of knowledge of the constitution is now at a disadvantage. He’s been using our own constitution to undermine the nation. He’s been using the system and the courts for decades and all for his own benefit. He would have been impeached and still should be for everything that he has been doing for his benefit that is extremely outside the legal limits of his office.
Another great article Charlie! But, it scared me to death! 🤓🇺🇸♥️.
I suggest those law firms who bent the knee just decide to organize and come together to send a fuck you message to Trump. He reneges on his deals all the time; why not these firms? They never got that a bully thug will always come back for more. Better to downsize with honor than ass kiss into hell.
How alarmed should we be that Mr. Sykes has gone off the deep end for a deported illegal alien MS13 gang member who had been detained as implicated in a murder investigation? Or that he has given credence to a demonstrably false assertion that the administration is in open defiance of a SCOTUS ruling that this MS13 gang member must be “repatriated“ to the US? SCOTUS ordered no such thing. Not even close.
Here’s the key language from the opinion: “the order properly requires the government to ‘facilitate’ Garcia’s RELEASE FROM CUSTODY IN EL SALVADOR.” It says nothing about returning him to the US. Indeed it implies that it would be fine if El Salvador deported him to Timbuktu.
SCOTUS made clear that the lower court order should not presume to interfere with the President’s Art. II power over foreign relations and gave a very strong ‘hint’ that its prior order to “effectuate” even Garcia’s release “may exceed the District Court’s authority.” That is clearly recognized as a smack upside the head to the district court judge.
Indeed, SCOTUS drove home the point directing the trial judge in two added ways: (1) to “clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs” and (2) the government merely “should be prepared to share WHAT IT CAN concerning” steps taken and “the prospect of further steps.” Thats it.
In legal parlance, that means the district court judge should drop the presence of her “inferior court” ego and listen carefully to and, pretty much, accept whatever it is the administration deigns to provide. The administration, not the jumped up DC judge, is driving this particular legal bus.
Read the legal tea leaves. SCOTUS is not going to allow a real constitutional crisis to devolve from some an illegal alien already determined by an immigration trial and administrative appellate court to be MS13 and subject to deportation, just not to El Salvador. If there’s gonna be a constitutional crisis with any of these “inferior court” TROs, it will be over bigger fish to fry than Mr. MS13 “Maryland father” Garcia. Fighting this particular legal fact pattern is an absolute loser for the Left.
When all is said and done, the legal moral of this story is: don’t be an illegal alien with gang ties in the US. Leave now.
Dogs rule!
I'm a former newspaper reporter (8 years covering government and politics) Challenging for the editors reading the stories to write headlines BUT your point is well made. Keep the dog photos coming and what is that Eli is wearing in your car, a doggie seat belt?
I thought maybe a thunder vest
Thank you for pointing this out. I get outraged by many of these headlines that the editors create, thinking they're providing some sort of balanced coverage.
This is another illustration of the jumble of thoughts disconnected from reality that make up Trump's thinking. He takes nothing seriously, places no value on experience, expertise, knowledge. A drunken weekend tv host runs the DoD, a conspiracy-minded anti-vaxx crank over HHS, cosplaying ICE Barbie over DHS, cult & dictator-loving extremist as DNI, crazy-eyed swag merchant and his podcaster sidekick running the FBI, faux Christian, faux lawyer AG, NY real estate pal in charge of world peace, etc., etc. Now, extorted, top-tier attorneys are perfect for negotiating trade deals and rebuilding the coal industry. If this isn't crazy, then crazy doesn't exist. Is there any way that this can't blow up, with disastrous consequences?
The unfitness is a feature, not a bug. Destroying federal govt had long been wet dream of Republicans like heritage foundation at al.
“But” is the Eraser Word. It negates the sentence content immediately prior.
You've done it again, Charlie, and in the process really upped your game. When history records this epoch of agony and progress, may you be numbered among our heroes. You'll look so good in the cover pic on your bio, flanked by your remarkably regal (in the best sense of the word) boyz.
Thank you Charlie, for parsing the "but". There's a lot of stuff that makes me uneasy or even alarmed and (but) i can't quite articulate in simple terms why it's unsettling or alarming. I'm quite sure this is by design because MAGA is a bunch of world class semantic gymnasts. They learned English from George Orwell.
That itself is alarming.
The White House looks like a cheap hotel trying to be fancy. Figures. Where did they ever find such trashy tchotchkes
Are those his fake golf trophies?
Good one. Probably
Garcia is an illegal alien. Period. Harvard needs to be monitored. You go to college for an education..no other reason. And if the government gives them money then they should have to answer to the government.
You miss the point.
But you probably know that....
PS: No, he isn't he was given a pass by an immigration judge years ago and a work permit
That was before his wife applied for 2 domestic violence restraining orders against him. More to this story than we know. But we see how it's working out.
Seriously?...hmmmm
Trolls are a marker of success.
I guess that is a way to see it...as they think we are worth going after...
What comes after the “but” is like who’s “The last one in the room” theory.
Your “exit take” captures my mood perfectly. As I continue to digest reality, I wonder how so many people can continue to exist in a state of nonsense or denial.
330 million?